UPI

On This Day: First Battle of the Marne begins

Sept. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1522, one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships -- the Vittoria -- arrived at Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, completing the first circumnavigation of the ...
The Atlantic

The Summer of 1914

IN HIS little-known but classic work, Liaison 1914, the Englishman E. L. Spears ends the story as he reaches the banks of the Aisne one week after the victory of the First Marne. His closing words are ...
Publishers Weekly

The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

The irony of Robert Crumb, per this alternately rollicking and perceptive biography, is that the cartoonist most identified with 1960s counterculture was no hippie. The man Continue reading » Everyday ...
StrategyPage

Book Review: Chasing the Great Retreat: The German Cavalry Pursuit of the British Expeditionary Force before the Battle of the Marne August 1914

Warwick, Eng.: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2022. Pp. xiv, 188. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $45.00 paper. ISBN: 191507083X The Failure of German ...